@MarieeToBee: Secrets Silversands. Amazing food and restaurants. The rooms and comfortable, clean, and luxurious (very streamline modern design). The staff are one of a kind amazing…the pools are many. The management will fix any issue you have.

Only issue is that the beach was runined by a hurricane few yrs back and the coral is near the shore…so not the best beach…but they do make up for it on the resort.

@MarieeToBee: We went to Silversands for our honeymoon. Overall we had an amazing time! If you are going for your honeymoon- I strongly urge you to get a Prefered Club room. The perks you receive with the complimentary package make it totally worth it! Even though they serve top-shelf liquor at all bars, the bartender at the preferred club lounge let us try many things.

The food was great! We didn’t care for Portofino (Italian) or Bordeaux (French) restaurants. We really appreciated not having to make reservations (except for the Hibachi table at Himitsu). The room service was fast and we especially loved their breakfast choices.

There are 8 or 9 pools out of which we only used 4 as they were the warmest. The pool service was good too. Like the PP said, the beach is terrible because of the hurricane, but fine for lounging in the sun. If we really wanted to swim, we just headed over to the pools.

If you have any other questions about the resort, please feel free to ask or PM me.

So we are still debating this sitatuion and I was hoping maybe I would be able to get some more opinons 🙂 I think if there werent the beach issues we would be sold on silversands. My FI does not enjoy the ocean and I cant say I do either but i have never seen CLEAR water so I was excited to at least go in and if we go to silversands that doesnt sound like an option. Also, I like the modern look but some reviews said it was too modern and made the resort feel uncomfortable to them :/

Valentin has been recommended to us but I am worried I may feel too overwellmed with the size of the resort as we have never done an AI.<br /><br />If it makes a difference we wanted Secrets Maroma but it is out of our budget :/

We did Valentin imperial, it was nice…I liked the beaches, nice and secluded. Not much nightlife, just a sports bar and an outdoor dance set up late at Night. Property is nice but mildewy smell was everywhere. Didn’t like our rooms bathroom set up…no privacy! Not that newlyweds need tons if privacy from one another but if you want to take a #2 without your partner sensing it….you ar. Gonna have to walk a looooong way to find a public restroom. The grounds are huge, a lot of walking involved. Pools and bars are awesome, try a frozen nipple if you go.